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Government finance and the avoidance of embarrassment

Simon Jenkins:

It is easy to tell a local council to close a swimming pool or library, shut a drug rehab centre or stop training for prisoners. But it takes guts to sink a Trident submarine or clip a hundred million off an Olympic velodrome. It upsets the people ministers meet at dinner.

Uncomfortable silences over the chateaubriand would never do.

(Via Claude)


Posted on April 26th, 2009 at 4:00pm under New Labour

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  1. Letters From A Tory (40 comments.) on 27.04.2009 at 09:27 Permalink | Reply

    Opposition parties also find it harder to make a big deal out of a swimming pool closing in Dorset than they do when it comes to national security and nuclear weapons.

  2. ejh (436 comments.) on 29.04.2009 at 09:22 Permalink | Reply

    A hundred million off an Olympic velodrome?

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